10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GALLOWSNESS»
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gallowsness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
Gallowsminded, adj. (colloquial).—Criminal in habit and idea ; also, evilhearted.
Gallowsness, subs. (old).—Rascality; recklessness; mischievousness. 1859G.
Eliot, Adam Bede, ch. vi. I never knew your equal for gallowsness. Gallowsripe,
adj.
... which she now dragged forth and held up to Molly's view with cutting
eloquence. " Spinning, indeed ! It isn't spinning as you'd be at, I'll be bound, and
let you have your own way. I never knew your equals for gallowsness. To think of
a gell o' ...
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Write As Soon As You Git This: An Historical Novel Based on ...
There is good many of the gitting sick now but it is mostly through gallowsness
then anything else. There is four guys out of the Regiment died. Robert Fowler is
in the hospital in Lexington and Steph Peffer is for the sick at present. We got to ...
Lyn Terese Miller Smith, 2006
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
etc., is S.E.; the same applies to George Eliot's gallowsness] gallumph. See
galumph. galluptious. Var. spelling of galoptious. gallus. A frequent pron. and occ
. spelling of gallows, adv. gally-pot. See gallipot. gally-swab. A cook's steward: ...
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A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and ...
... unbecoming wishes, which she now dragged forth and held up to Molly's view
with cutting eloquence. "Spinning, indeed! It isn't spinning as you'd be at, I'll be
bound, and let you have your own way. I never knew your equals for gallowsness
.
Charles Dudley Warner, 2008
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George Eliot Complete Novels (All 9 in One Volume!) - ...
... unbecoming wishes, whichshe nowdragged forth andheld up to Molly's
viewwith cutting eloquence. "Spinning, indeed! Itisn't spinning as you'dbe at,I'llbe
bound,and let you haveyour own way.I never knew your equals for gallowsness.
I never knew your equals for gallowsness. To think of a gell o' your age
wantingtogoand sitwith half-a-dozen men!I'dha' been ashamedtolet the words
pass over mylips if I'd beenyou. And you,as have beenhereever since last
Michaelmas, and ...
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Avuncularism: Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Nineteenth-century ...
It isn't spinning as you'd be at, I'll be bound, and let you have your own way. I
never knew your equal for gallowsness. To think of a gell o' your age wanting to
go and sit with half-a-dozen men! . . . That's the way with you — that's the road
you'd ...
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Adam Bede, by George Eliot
... which she now dragged forth and held up to Molly's view with cutting
eloquence. " Spinning, indeed ! It isn't spinning as you'd be at, I'll be bound, and
let you have your own way. I never knew your equals for gallowsness. To think of
a gell o' ...
I never knewyour equals for gallowsness.To thinkofa gell o' your age wantingto
goandsitwith halfadozenmen!I'd ha'been ashamedtolet the words pass over my
lips if I'd been you. And you,as have beenhere ever since last Michaelmas, and I
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